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CIGAR COLORING MAGHINE.

No. 286,413. r A Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

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CIGAR OOLORI'NG MACHINE. N0. 286' 4'l3. Patented 0013.9, 1883.

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GEORGE B. rent on,

ClGAR-COLORING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ATENr OFFICE,

on NEW YORK, n. 1*.

Patent No. 286,413, dated October 9, 1883.

Application filed January 31, 1833. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. FRENCH. of

New York city, county, and State, have invented an Improved.Cigar-Goloring Machine, of which the following is a specification. V

Figure 1 of the. drawings is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly broken away; Fig. 3, a sectional elevation on linear a: of Fig. 2;. Fig. 4, a sectional view of the feedtable.

The machine will first be described and the invention then pointed out in the claims.

A represents the base; B, the stationary table on posts a; F, the upper rotary annular coloringbrush; G, a lower rotating plate; E, a vertical rotary shaft, and D a stationary brush attached to the under side of table B. Brush F rotates in the annular channel 0 011 the top of tableB, to which the concentric are flanges 2) b are attached to confine the cigars while being colored by the brush.

(1 d are rollers arranged inpockets f in table B, to supply coloring material to the annular coloring-brush F. These rollers d are covered with felt or other absorbent, and receive their coloringinaterial from holder I, and are rotated in the pockets which contain the coloring-matter by the brush-bristles that move over them. This distributes the coloring material evenly on brush F after it passes rollers d.

H is a stationary plate or feed-table, over which the brush F passes. before reaching the cigars. The table B has an opening, J through which the cigars drop upon the rotary plate G into the channel C, formed by the arc-plate I), attached to table B, and the concentric arc plate 0 on plate G. The brush D reaches down into this channel, whose bottom is covered with baize or analogous material, and the cigars are carried around by the rotation of the plate G under the brush D. The rotation of .the cigars brings every part of the wrappers into contact with the brush for drying the coloring material and polishing the cigars. The bottom of channel 0 being cov ered with baize or like material, as shown at i, the wrappers are protected from injury while being coated and subjected to sufficient friction to make them rotate as they are moved round the channel by rotating brush F. The wrappers are thus very evenly colored.

L is a diagonal deflecting-stop on the under side of stationary table B, at the opening K in flange b, for the purpose of forcing the cigars out onto the chute M.

j j are screws, which secure the brush Fand plate G adjustably to the vertical shaft E.

It will be observed that the feed-table H is tangential to the brush J, and table B is depressed, andhas a cover, H, correspondingly depressed, so that the cigars may be fed well under the brush F before they issue from the feed-table, so that the brush will strike them evenly and cause them to be properly rolled around the channel 0. Thus itwill be seen that the cigars are by one continuous operation colored and wiped or finished.

\Vhat I claim as new and of my invention 1. The stationary table B, having channel 0 and brush D, in combination with the annular rotating brush F, and rotating plate G, having channel 0, as and for the purpose described. I

2. The combination of the stationary table B, having the annular channel 0, the pockets f, the rollers d, the annular brush D, and stop L. with the annular rotary coloring-brush F, and the rotary plate G, having the channel 0, formed by the flanges c and b, the latter having an opening, K, for the outlet of the cigars, as described. I

GEO. B. FRENCH. Witnesses:

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